How to live graduate studently

Or, how living frugally is the new living like a grad student, but less depressing

Giving up cable
Frugal living: saves money, download anyway (or watch content online)
Grad student living: saves money, increases criminal activity (watching restricted online content using workaround, downloading)

Go grocery shopping with a list
Frugal living: reduces impulse buys, helps meal planning
Grad student living: impulse buy consists of $2 bottle of Vitamin water, what meal planning?, list heavy on pasta, frozen food, and reduced-price meat that will be divided and frozen once home

Cut back on eating out
Frugal living: saves money
Grad student living: but not on drinking, right?

Clip coupons
Frugal living: stretches dollar
Grad student living: stretches dollar, exacerbates hoarding mentality, increases preparations for coming apocalypse/unemployment in the real world

Cutting down on driving
Frugal living: saves gas money and insurance costs, saves the environment
Grad student living: saves gas money and insurance costs, saves the environment, walking to and from grocery store a form of exercise, time spent waiting for bus would have been spent surfing internet anyways, time spent waiting for bus optimistically considered time for reading articles/books, riding public transit doubles as research for novel about quirky, depressing urban life, get to use U-pass that you pay for anyway*

* not applicable to all post-secondary institutions